Summary

• Business Analyst with over 7 years of experience inIT/Software Development Life Cycle SDLC , business and functional requirements gathering, requirements analysis, business process design and software validation.
• Project experience with commercial and retail banking, investments, FX Trading, capital market, securities, brokerage and mortgage industry.
• Extensive experience working on Systems Analysis and Design, using Joint Application Requirement JAR , Joint Application Design JAD , Work Breakdown, Entity Relationship, Data Flow, Structure Chart and Flow Chart documentation.
• Experience in preparinggraphical depictions of use cases including Sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, use case diagrams and business workflow.
• Proficient with MS Excel, Access, MS Word, MS Visio, MS Project.
• Extensive experience organizing Joint Application Development JAD and Joint Requirement Planning JRP sessions, Interviews, workshops, Requirement Elicitation sessions and Rapid Application Development RAD sessions with end-users/clients/stakeholders and the development group.
• Extensive experience in documenting Business Requirements Specifications BRS , Use Cases, Functional and Non-Functional requirements, Systems Design Specifications, Systems Requirements Specifications SRS .
• Experience in conducting GAP analysis, User Acceptance Testing UAT , SWOT analysis, Cost benefit analysis CBA and ROI analysis, forecasting and traceability matrix.
• Sound proficiency in analyzing and creating Use Case Diagrams, Activity diagrams, Class diagrams, Data Flow Diagrams, Business Flow Diagrams and Sequence diagrams using tools such as MS Visio.
• Adept in translating business requirements, reporting requirements and user expectations into detailed system specifications employing Unified Modeling Language UML .
• Good knowledge of Business Process Modeling and Business Re-Engineering.
• Good knowledge of Interest Rate Risk and Credit Risk, Market Risk related to securities and measuring risk using metrics such as VAR.
• Effective communicator of business directives, goals and needs to the technical team.
• Proven ability to work under pressure, handle multiple priorities and projects, meet deadlines.
• Pro-active, Prudent, and Organized.
• Able to quickly adapt to the new technologies and business skills.
• Excellent communication, analytical, interpersonal, presentation and troubleshooting skills.

Skill Set

Requirements Elicitation, UML Unified Modeling Language , SQL, Agile, Waterfall, RUP, Microsoft Office 2010/2007/2003 Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, Project, Visio , MS SharePoint, SSRS, Requisite Pro, Rational Rose, SPSS, Bloomberg, Financial Modeling, UML Design, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Swim Lane Diagrams, Process flow diagrams.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Business Systems Analyst

Responsibilities

• Extensively and closely worked with the business owners, conducted formal interviews, live meetings and JAD sessions to identify requirements and functional specifications.
• Conducted and controlled brainstorming sessions with project focus groups.
• Conducted analysis on business needs, critical success factor.
• Worked with the systems architects in designing the system and flows
• Documented High Level Design HLD and Low Level Design LLD documents to define the system rules by creating Use cases, interface designs etc.
• Created ad hoc reports for the business, management.
• Created Use Case diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams in MS Visio
• Analyzed and prioritized user and business requirements as system requirements that must be included while developing the software.
• Participated in the creation ofProject templates, Use case specifications, Change request form.
• Worked with cross-functional teams for building use cases, demonstrating the business requirements, developing business models designed and developed business flow diagrams, Object Oriented models using MS Visio.
• Conducted Model reviews with project team members published and communicated models to various IT and business-based teams.
• Worked with testing team in developing the test plan, test conditions, test cases based on business requirements and technical specifications.
• Involved in UAT process and coordinated with the UAT team to get the feedback to make change requirements document.

Confidential

Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• UsedAgile methodology to create Business Requirement Document specifications utilizing MS Visio and MS Word
• Efficiently conductedJAD sessions with management, SMEs, vendors and other stakeholders for open, pending and critical issues
• Competently performed the role of primary point of contact in tracking and communicating issues to vendors, management and stakeholder group
• Maintained a strong working knowledge of Trade Reconciliation and Settlement procedures.
• Conducted functional and technical assessment of different websites for effective integration
• UsedUnified Modeling Language UML methodologies to plan and define system requirements to model Use Case, Use Case Scenario and Use Narrative
• Periodically communicated and met with Developers, System Analysts and testers to facilitate resource allocation and project completion using MS Project
• Adopted a significant role in Interface testing both functionally and manually
• Communicated existing problems to appropriate software development team for fixes
• Created and managedproject templates, use case project templates, requirement types and traceability relationships
• Developed strategies with Quality Assurance team to implement Test Cases for stress testing and User Acceptance Testing UAT
• Collaborated with Quality Assurance Analyst in Automated and Manual Black box testing employing Mercury's Win Runner
• Environment:Windows, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS SharePoint, RUP, UML, SQL, Agile

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Interviewed the business users and SMEs to gather business requirements for the application
• Identified the business requirements from the end users keeping in mind their need for the application and prepared the Business Requirements Document and Functional Specifications Document.
• Organized and moderated Joint Application Development JAD sessions identified business and system use cases, wrote use case narratives and used MS Visio to prepare the Use Case diagrams.
• Improve the reach, effectiveness and trustworthiness of the ecommerce application.
• Created Unified Modeling Language UML diagrams including Activity diagrams, Use case model and, using MS Visio.
• Scheduled meetings with developers, system analyst and testers to collaborate resource allocation and project completion using MS Project
• Wrote testing requirements, test plans and test cases for System Testing
• Created and executed test scripts in HP Quality Center for defect tracking and effectively communicated the defects to the developer team
• Worked with testers, developers and other team members to validate and test complex system and with the maintenance of Quality Standards in projects
• Widely used SQL to extract data from the database.
• Acted as a liaison between the developers and user staff and was instrumental in resolving conflicts between the user and technical teams
• Finished the projects by successfully installing the applications into production and providing the desirable instruction materials liberate comments to the business users, filing lessons learned to accumulate in the organizational procedure assets.

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Defined and identified Business Rules by interacting with stakeholders and users through Surveys Brainstorming.
• Developed a vision plan that defined the primary goals and objectives of the project.
• Gathered Business Requirements from the Stakeholders and documented the requirements.
• Conducted Joint Application Development JAD sessions with Subject matter experts SMEs to obtain domain related information.
• Planned the project by conducting interviews, feasibility studies to identify and eliminate high-risk areas of the application.
• Assessed the evolution of business in future developed long-term product roadmap.
• Identified Use cases from the Functional requirements and wrote Use Case Specifications and created Business Process workflow diagrams Activity Sequence diagrams using Rational Rose.
• Applied Unified Modeling Language UML notations and methodology in developing models that accurately represent the business process and workflows to effectively communicate them to the stakeholders.
• Implemented the Rational Unified Process RUP methodology of application development with its various workflows, artifacts and activities.
• Used Rational Clear Case as Version Control System for any changes to common documents, related to project.
• Assisted the QA personnel in the creation of Test Cases using Rational Test Manager.
• Environment:MS Visio, MS Excel, SQL, RUP, UML, Rational Rose, RequisitePro, Rational ClearQuest, Agile

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Thoroughly studied the inherent systems to have a clear understanding of the business processes and associated system workflow.
• Gatheredbusiness requirements and converted them into functional requirement specifications and user requirement specifications.
• Conducted GAP analysis to understand new business model and additional functionalities to be incorporated into the new application.
• Conducted JAD sessions for better understanding and refining of requirements in coordination with multiple teams.
• Develop Project Plan, Project Scope with project Manager and divide the product cycle by Work Breakdown Structure using WBS MS Project.
• Documented various documents including the Business Requirements Document and the Use Case Specification Documents.
• Used Rational Requisite Pro MS Visio to manage requirements.
• Participated in various architectural development sessions to provide technical teams with a better understanding of the requirements.
• Analyzed Requirements and created Use Cases, Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams using MS Visio.
• Carried out detailed and comprehensive business analysis with the RUP methodology.
• Prepared Business Process Models, which included modeling of all activities of the business from conceptual to procedural level.
• Assisted QA team by Reviewing test cases and clarifying requirements to ensure complete coverage of requirements.